The Colonel's Solilquy. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI JIJI KL L MNMN JHJH OEOEThe quay recedes Hurrah Ahead we go | A |
It's true I've been accustomed now to home | B |
And joints get rusty and one's limbs may grow | A |
More fit to rest than roam | B |
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But I can stand as yet fair stress and strain | C |
There's not a little steel beneath the rust | D |
My years mount somewhat but here's to't again | E |
And if I fall I must | D |
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God knows that for myself I've scanty care | F |
Past scrimmages have proved as much to all | G |
In Eastern lands and South I've had my share | F |
Both of the blade and ball | G |
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And where those villains ripped me in the flitch | H |
With their old iron in my early time | I |
I'm apt at change of wind to feel a twitch | H |
Or at a change of clime | I |
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And what my mirror shows me in the morning | J |
Has more of blotch and wrinkle than of bloom | I |
My eyes too heretofore all glasses scorning | J |
Have just a touch of rheum | I |
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Now sounds 'The Girl I've left behind me ' Ah | K |
The years the ardours wakened by that tune | L |
Time was when with the crowd's farewell 'Hurrah ' | - |
'Twould lift me to the moon | L |
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But now it's late to leave behind me one | M |
Who if poor soul her man goes underground | N |
Will not recover as she might have done | M |
In days when hopes abound | N |
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She's waving from the wharfside palely grieving | J |
As down we draw Her tears make little show | H |
Yet now she suffers more than at my leaving | J |
Some twenty years ago | H |
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I pray those left at home will care for her | O |
I shall come back I have before though when | E |
The Girl you leave behind you is a grandmother | O |
Things may not be as then | E |
Thomas Hardy
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